Posted on 10/17/2014 7:00:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The World Health Organization has admitted that it botched attempts to stop the now-spiraling Ebola outbreak in West Africa, blaming factors including incompetent staff and a lack of information.
"Nearly everyone involved in the outbreak response failed to see some fairly plain writing on the wall," WHO said in a draft internal document obtained by The Associated Press, noting that experts should have realized that traditional containment methods wouldn't work in a region with porous borders and broken health systems.
The U.N. health agency acknowledged that, at times, even its own bureaucracy was a problem. It noted that the heads of WHO country offices in Africa are "politically motivated appointments" made by the WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Luis Sambo, who does not answer to the agency's chief in Geneva, Dr. Margaret Chan.
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Yet we continue to leave our borders wide open.
Wide open.
I don’t want to hear those mild words of apology echoed and distorted by Obama if we don’t take the Senate: “The CDC could perhaps have improved its response, but all of our policies have been validated by the American people in this election.” /S
And we’re supposed to trust these people and the CDC?
Yet in the same statement said Senegal was now free of Ebola outbreak........er not sure i’d believe them.
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
And continue to work 6 months a year to fund this dysfunction leading to our own demise.
But since the UN is UNaccountable to anyone, it doesn’t matter how many times you screw up.
THE UN DIRECTORS DON’T DEIGN TO BLAME THEMSELVES
THEY THROW THE BRAVE PEOPLE IN THE FIELD, SAVING LIVES, UNDER THE BUS.
PITIFUL BASTARDS
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